 |
| Start:
|
Tuesday, March 11, 2003
5:30 PM
|
|
| End:
|
Tuesday, March 11, 2003
7:30 PM
|
|
| Location: |
EPPC Conference Center
1015 15th St NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC
|
|
In the third lecture in our series on technology and society, Amy Laura Hall will consider the transforming effect of new reproductive technologies on our ideas of parenthood and childhood. How will the growing capacity to genetically test, screen, manipulate, and engineer human life at its earliest stages fundamentally alter the way that parents see their children and the way children see their parents? How do these new reproductive technologies-both the dreams and the nightmares they inspire-relate to modern technology and American culture more generally? How do symbols like the Double Helix and the Atom-images of human control, its limits, and its dangers-remake the experience of parenthood?
Amy Laura Hall (B.A. Emory University, M.Div. and Ph.D. Yale University) is an Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke University. Professor Hall's interests include bioethics, Kierkegaard studies, and the retrieval of traditional Christian texts for moral discernment. Professor Hall is presently writing Conceiving Parenthood, which uses examples from the popular media to church tracts to document the rise of medical-technological consumerism in the last century. An ordained pastor in the United Methodist Church, Hall serves on the UMC Bioethics Task Force.
Dr. Peter Berger spoke at EPPC's most recent 
EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel's latest book,